VATICAN CITY – In a move that critics consider to be both the scapegoating of gays and a refusal to investigate and correct possible hierarchical corruption, the Vatican has released its long-awaited statement on the ordinations of gays within the Roman Catholic Church.Although...

The January 2006 AVN Awards are just around the corner and Digital Underground is looking forward to them even more than usual, with 39 nominations in 29 categories to add to the company’s impressive list of accomplishments.The big nomination winner for the company is...

CYBERSPACE – Largely in response to requests from companies looking to re-brand their online presence with shorter, catchier domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is planning to release single letter domain names sometime in 2006.Single...

BARTOW, FL – Florida prosecutors are asking Circuit Court Judge J. Dale Durrance to revoke bail for Christopher Wilson, webmaster of NowThatsFuckedUp.com, claiming that by continuing to operate his website, Wilson has “committed new crimes.”The Florida State Attorney’s Office...

ENFIELD, CT – Michelle Silva thought that things were starting to settle down in her life. She was getting her finances in order and had found that selling home-made bondage videos through her website provided her with the economic independence she needed to accomplish her goals....

OREM, UT – For parents seeking an effective way to keep their kids away from internet porn, Ralph Yarro figures he has the ideal solution; all he needs now is a fundamental shift in internet protocols, and the enactment of groundbreaking federal legislation.Yarro is the head of...

AUSTRALIA – A common complaint made against pornography by anti-porn feminists and social conservatives is that it regularly demeans women by depicting them as nothing more than “sex objects.” A recent Australian study on the subject disagrees.According to the study, which...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – According to company executives, the Mozilla Foundation is planning an extensive, largely ‘community-based’ marketing campaign to get the word out about Firefox version 1.5, which could be released as early as tomorrow.Christopher Beard, vice-president of...

CALIFORNIA – Playboy’s stock, trading shy of $15 a share as of this article’s writing, was downgraded from “buy” to “neutral” by Bank of America Sec on Monday. Many analysts have pointed to concern over the company’s relatively flat revenues, and drops in both publishing...

NEW YORK, NY – The Pew Internet and American Life Project is reporting a sharp increase in domestic search engine use this year over 2004, with approximately 60 million American adults now making daily use of search engines.The report, based on data from telephone surveys...